African film making celebrated at MTV Movie Awards

Viva Riva was chosen the best African movie

Few days to go before the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, MTV has announced that African film making will be recognized for the first time ever at the prestigious annual awards ceremony.   African films will be from now acknowledged in the BEST AFRICAN MOVIE CATEGORY at the awards show that also celebrates Hollywood blockbusters like “Inception” and “The Social Network”, “The Twilight Saga” and “Harry Potter”. Viva Riva! is the breathless story of the rise and fall of Riva, a Congolese smuggler who makes a fortune overnight and is hunted down in Kinshasa

The other nominees for BEST AFRICAN MOVIE at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards are:

A Screaming Man

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Executive Producer: Florence Stern. Foreign Producer: Diana Elbaum

Life, Above All

Director: Oliver Schmitz, Producers: Oliver Stoltz, Greig Buckle

Viva Riva! (the winner) 

Director: Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Producers: Bors van Gils, Michael Goldberg, Djo Tunda Wa Munga.  Co-producer: Steven Markovitz

Restless City

Director: Andrew Dosunmu, Producers: Katie Mustard, Matt Parker; Executive Producers: David Raymond and Tony Okungbowa.

Source: StarAfrica.com